Quotes on Character

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

Whether it's a very dramatic part or a comical role, I feel I need to create the same thing: a full-fledged, three-dimensional character that the audience can identify with.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.